fortunate

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Bringing something good and unforeseen; auspicious.

adj. Having unexpected good fortune; lucky. See Synonyms at happy.

n. One who has good fortune, especially a wealthy person.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Coming by good luck or favorable chance.

adj. Bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain.

adj. Presaging happiness.

adj. Auspicious.

adj. Receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts.

adj. Lucky, favored by fortune.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious

adj. Receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky.

Bringing or presaging good fortune; resulting favorably, as something uncertain; having a happy issue; auspicious; felicitous: as, a fortunate speculation; a fortunate accident.

Synonyms Felicitous, Lucky, etc. (See happy.) Fortunate, Successful, Prosperous, favored. Fortunate implies the attainment of success more by the operation of favorable circumstances, or through accident, than by direct effort; successful denotes that effective effort has been made; prosperous has nearly the same meaning as successful, but does not at all emphasize the effort made, and applies rather to a series of things than to a single event. We say a fortunate gambler, a successful merchant, a prosperous line of business.

n. In astrology, a favorable planet. Nares. See extract under fortitude, 3.

Examples

This was only his sick fancy, for on the third of September, which was the anniversary of the great battle of Worcester, and the day of the year which he called his fortunate day, he died, in the sixtieth year of his age.